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Sure. But then what words do you use to describe actual REST?

This keeps happening and all it does it cause confusion.

It's one thing to make up new words for new concepts so you can more easily refer to them in a conversation.

It's another thing entirely to give a word a vague but similar meaning without any clear way to differentiate between the original specific and new extremely nebulous concept.




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